Best 435 quotes in «excuse quotes» category

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.

Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any social failure-so I can say "No, I don't go out for many extracurricular activities, but I spend a lot of time writing.

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.

Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants." "Excuse me.

You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

You can't get to genius on a platform of excuses.

You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.

Bold people dance happily when they are confronted with life’s adventures... they see themselves going through with smiles... Give no excuse for being a coward. Be bold!

Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that Thou hast done to me. Therefore turn and draw.

Cell phones are certainly not necessary, and "but I'm from the digital age, this is what everyone in my generation is doing!" isn't a very good excuse for being hooked on a glowing screen 24/7. In the 1960's every teen of the times was tripping on acid and running off to find themselves in communes and love buses. It was a fad, there was no excuse for it and it passed, just like I think that this generation's "cell phones are necessary for socialization" fad will eventually pass. What will it bring afterwards? I don't even want to know, but I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope that it isn't anything else digital.

Don't stop believing, Don't be afraid of change, Don't underestimate yourself, Don't make excuses, Don't cheat yourself, Don't ever ever STOP!

Excuse tries to justify.

Excuse your Excuses

Fear is not an excuse,” Yael told him. “Fear is being human.

Give out of your surplus; support someone who's lacking. Give out a little even when lacking; it'll make someone lucky... Have no excuse not to give!

Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy.

Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.

Winners make commitments, losers make excuses.

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?

Yes I make mistakes that I don't ever make excuses for

You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.

You really do hate me, don't you? I mean, destroying someone's ice-cream cone? That's vicious." Her cheeks reddened. "I didn't see you there. Honestly." She wiped at his shirt more frantically, as if she could prevent it from staining if she rubbed hard enough. "Oh, now I see your plan, and it's far more devious than I thought." Daniel smirked. "You were looking for an excuse to grope me.

You're excuses are so lame they're limping.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

Abundant evidence exists to prove that we are continually creating excuses to explain why we do not reach our goals.

Adult don't know what they say and what they mean once that... other moment something else... it's okay for the kids... they grow... they still don't know a lot of stuff but so far I see that they have an a excuse! - BUt what's the adult... excuse?!

Adult don't know what they say and what they mean once that... other moment something else... it's okay for the kids... they grown they still don't know a lot of stuff but they have excuse! - BUt what's the adult... excuse?!

Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.

Anxiety and Afraid of being rejected, have always been the killer/s of our dreams.... .... Sounds like this story has been already told by me?

A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major Gardiners, and engag'd to keep School at Bristol, provided Worcester People, at their ensuing March meeting, should change this into a moving School, not otherwise. Major Greene this Evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and Satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the Argument he advanced was, 'that a mere creature, or finite Being, could not make Satisfaction to infinite justice, for any Crimes,' and that 'these things are very mysterious.' (Thus mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.) [Diary entry, February 13 1756]

Apology makes you self responsible while excuse makes you undependable

Bad things are always gonna happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.

Bernie cursed and swore like a sailor sometimes, even around young children, to the point where he was kicked out of Disney World during a trip to Orlando, Florida one year. To boot, he’d jabbed a sewing needle into the helium Mickey Mouse balloons of at least twenty kids before a park worker dressed as Cinderella finally called security. “Disney’s a greedy, bloodsucking corporation,” was Bernie’s half-assed excuse. Tony wasn’t sure that even Bernie himself knew why he had an attitude like that.

But the christian story of God the Father putting his son to death, or employing people to do it, (for that is the plain language of the story,) cannot be told by a parent to a child; and to tell him that it was done to make mankind happier and better, is making the story still worse; as if mankind could be improved by the example of murder; and to tell him that all this is a mystery, is only making an excuse for the incredibility of it.

Does sorry change anyth? No. Never welcom a sorry from som1 who was conscious at the scene and just couldn't help him self out of trouble.

Don't blame me, I'm only a manifestation of everyone i have ever met

Early tragedy is no excuse for cynicism and apathy.

Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!

Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise.

Excuses are lies which we tell ourselves before giving reason to others, we reason ourselves that we have done our best, gradually the reason becomes our belief & ultimately our truth, unknowingly we become responsible for closing the door that can lead us towards improvement.